THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



[October. 



THE 



American Bee-Keeper 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY 



Official organ of New York State Associa- 

 tion of Bee- Keepers' Societies. 



Official organ of the Colorado State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. 



THE W. T. FAXCONBB MTG. CO. 



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Home Office Falconer, N. T. 



Harry E. Hill Editor 



Arthur C. Miller Associate Editor 



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In our September issue Mr. Geo. 

 B. Howe said some pertinent things 

 about breeding bees, and it will be 

 worth your while to reread the arti- 

 cle. Pedigreed queens are worth 

 something; but where can you find 

 half a dozen bee-keepers who can, 

 with any degree of certainty, tell the 

 pedigree of their stock? (M.) 



A PRINTER'S ERROR. 

 In the September number, in an 

 editorial on Misfit Apicultural Advice, 

 I am made to say regarding full en- 

 trances for winter "one by one-half 

 inches." Such an entrance used in 

 connection with the tarred wrapping 

 is ruinous. The passage should have 

 read "fourteen by one-half inches." 

 Where field or house mice are trou- 

 blesome I guard such an entrance 

 with coarse wire cloth, meshes of 

 which will readily pass a bee. (M.) 



FACTS VERSUS FICTION. " 

 Not long ago Mr. G. M. Doolittle, 

 the producer of queens "with umbili- 

 cal cords," solemnly stated that a 

 queen of pure parentage but mated 

 to a drone of another race would 

 produce impure drones. It would be 

 amusing were it not pitiable to fol- 

 low the absurdities put forward by 

 him. Had he known anything about 

 the real structure, growth and laws 

 of bees he would at least have kept 

 his mouth shut on the foregoing 

 points. For the benefit of our read- 

 ers, I, while in attendance at the re- 

 cent International Zoological Con- 

 gress, sought out some of the world's 

 greatest authorities on parthenogen- 

 esis, particularly as found in the bee. 

 They said that impurity to the drone 

 offspring through the mating of the 

 mother was utterly impossible. When 

 ignorance is bliss it is folly to be 

 wise, so let us not disturb the joys 

 of the voluble purveyor of errors. 



If you have a queen of pure_ an- 

 cestry but mismated, do not hesitate 

 to rear drones from her, but look 

 sharp that no queens are raised from 

 her eggs, either in her own or some 

 other hive. I say some other hive, 

 because the shifting of combs so much 

 practiced by followers of Mr. D., not 

 infrequently results in losing sight of 

 the origin of the eggs from which 

 chance queens may be raised. And 

 color of the oflfspring, either queen 

 or worker, does not always tell the 



